contents
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Cover: Thomson equipment in use at a sporting event.
In Focus 5
Business Today: One platform concept stars at IBC.
6
By Joe O’Halloran.
Content Distribution: Pay radio: Ondas to commence in 2010.
8
By Chris Forrester.
Content Creation: ‘Seeing the invisible’: the challenge of Big Cat Live.
10
By Ian White.
Audio: 22.2 steps to audio heaven?
14
By Kevin Hilton.
My View: On the right track?
16
By Bob Pank.
Special Report: Sub-zero test for Canon.
18
A look at Canon’s involvement in an incredible Arctic expedition to film wildlife.
Letter to the Editor
19
From Frank Hyman, CEO of Autocue.
NEWS TECHNOLOGY & LIVE SPORT
Tracking the action: slow motion in sport. 20
by Tim Slate and Paul de Bresser, Thomson.
A Predator on the streets.
22
by Gabriel Fehervari, Alfacam Group.
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The changing role of browse technology in today’s newsrooms. 24
by Dave Cole, IPV.
Going for gold: bridging the Beijing-NY gap. 26
by Matt Adams, Omneon.
Managing sport at France Televisions.
30
IBE reports on the work of EVS at France’s largest broadcaster.
Virtual studio solutions whatever the application. 32
by Olivier Cohen, Hybrid MC.
Overture for Romanian soccer. 34
by Bogdan Alexe, Studio Video Art.
See it now: Gravity for the newsroom. 36
by Shaun McTernan, Solid State Logic.
SpiderCam at Euro 2008: providing a bird’s-eye view.
40
by Jens Peters, SpiderCam-Austria.
Ten years of automating NRK.
42
by Richard Thomas, Abit.
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